Local Canonbie residents, who have faced a long-running dispute over Buccleuch coal methane extraction proposals, accuse the estate of using political lobbying to promote its private interests over the community. The group told CommonSpace that the tax ...

Buccleuch also faced a community backlash in Canonbie over plans for coal bed methane extraction. Buccleuch, one of the old aristocratic families that grew to dominate rural Scotland through historic land grabs, said he was “deeply dismayed” that the ...

Pentland also owns land near Canonbie, in Dumfries and Galloway, and signed loans worth millions of pounds in total to various Buccleuch subsidiary companies. Wightman, who compiled the research, said: “Transparency is one of the key issues for a world ...

EMERGENCY repairs to the historic Skippers Bridge at Langholm will take place overnight from 9pm to 6am on Monday, January 25. Traffic wishing to use this stretch of the A7 during the planned closure will instead be diverted from Hawick to Canonbie...

One spillage, or a single burst pipe of contaminated water could, he claims, pollute the River Esk and destroy the reputation of a tourist attraction that brings thousands of people to Canonbie each year, tourists who eat in restaurants, spend money in ...

The 28th National Vintage Tractor road run was hosted by Canonbie vintage club this year. Around 500 tractors took part in the event including locals Rob Gourla , Duns in his Massey Ferguson 135 and Tom Couper , Greenlaw in his Grey and Gold Ferguson.